Kirill Balunov wrote:
While for those who are familiar with Pascal, Icon and other languages that use this syntax, this - `:=` looks natural.
As someone familiar with Pascal, I think the similarity to the Pascal assignment operator is actually an argument *against* it. Knowing what it means in Pascal is confusing, because Pascal's ":=" is equivalent to Python's "=" (it's strictly a statement, and can't be used in expressions). -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
